younger Indians personally chosen by Bose and known as the Tokyo Boys,

Azad Hind Fauj

After the British surrendered in February 1942, the Japanese inspired and even pressured troopers from the defeated British Indian Army to hitch the INA to liberate India. It stands on the positioning of the unique memorial—dedicated to an unknown soldier from the Indian National Army —that was destroyed after the war.

 The existence of the Azad Hind Government gave a greater legitimacy to the independence battle against the British. The Azad Hind Fauj participated in operation U-Go, the 1944 Japanese campaign in the course of British India. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose gave a well-known slogan Delhi Chalo after formation of this authorities.

Azad Hind Fauj

A youth wing of the INA, composed of forty five younger Indians personally chosen by Bose and known as the Tokyo Boys, was also despatched to Japan's Imperial Military Academy, where its members educated as fighter pilots. Named Jhansi ki Rani ("Jhansi Queens") Regiment , it drew female civilian volunteers from Malaya and Burma. The particular person corporations were armed with six antitank rifles, six Bren guns and six Vickers machine weapons. Some NCOs carried hand grenades, while senior officers of the Bahadur teams connected to every unit issued hand grenades to men going ahead on responsibility.